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title: 'Developer Community Lead (6 Month Contract) at adaption'
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# Developer Community Lead (6 Month Contract) at adaption

- **Company:** adaption
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** contract
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/adaption/61a230fc-e868-43fe-9652-e5386a96f68a

## Job description

## About Us

Most AI is frozen in place - it doesn't adapt to the world. We think that's backwards. Our mandate is to build efficient intelligence that evolves in real-time. Our vision is AI systems that are flexible, personalized, and accessible to everyone. We believe efficiency is what makes this possible - it's how we expand access and ensure innovation benefits the many, not the few. We believe in talent density: bringing together the best and most driven individuals to push the boundaries of continual adaptation. We're looking for builders and creative thinkers ready to shape the next era of intelligence.

## The Role

Our vision is AI systems that are flexible, adaptable, and accessible to everyone. We believe efficiency is what makes this possible - it's how we expand access and ensure innovation benefits the many, not the few. Part of that commitment is to engage with a wider ecosystem of early adopters, researchers and developers, and make sure we engage deeply with our mission of building progress at the edge of what is possible. You authentically care about our mission of empowering builders globally to have more control over AI. Your core strength is bringing people together. You craft and organize experiences that allow users to connect with Adaption, our team, and with each other.

## Responsibilities

- Establish our overall strategy for supporting developers, researchers and enterprises who want to have more control over their AI.
- Build and maintain Adaption's developer community spaces (Discord server, forums) from the ground up, answer questions, capture feedback, and turn it into actionable issues for the team
- Develop, manage, and run Adaption's ambassador program, from recruiting and onboarding ambassadors to equipping them with the resources, recognition, and support to represent Adaption in their own communities.
- Organize and lead meetups, hackathons, office hours, and live streams that introduce Adaption to new developer audiences
- Collaborate with developer groups, universities, accelerators, and open-source communities to co-host and amplify high-quality events
- Spotlight user projects and design partners (case studies, writeups, guest talks).
- Build automations and systems that make community operations scale - when you do something twice, you figure out how to do it better the third time
- Work closely with technical and marketing teams on cross-functional projects and feedback loops
- Stay connected with community members over time, keeping a mental map of who's doing interesting work, who should meet who, and what people are building

## Qualifications

- 2–3 years in a community lead role, with a track record of engaging technical users
- Strong operations instincts - you've built scalable processes from scratch and driven cross-functional initiatives to completion
- Strong written communication and experience engaging with communities over socials (Discord, X)
- Proven experience organizing developer events end-to-end, from small meetups to large-scale hackathons
- Genuine empathy for developers and curiosity about what they're building - you care about individuals, and about changing the status quo of who can shape AI. Energized by people - social situations charge you up, you're the first to say hello, and you follow up

Above all, we're looking for great teammates who make work feel lighter and aren't afraid to go out on a limb with bold ideas. You don't need to be perfect, but you do need to be adaptable. We encourage you to apply, even if you don't check every box.

## Benefits

- Flexible work: In-person collaboration in the Bay Area, a distributed global-first team, and team offsites.
- Adaption Passport: Annual travel stipend to explore a country you've never visited. We're building intelligence that evolves alongside you, so we encourage you to keep expanding your horizons.
- Lunch Stipend: Weekly meal allowance for take-out or grocery delivery.
- Well-Being: Comprehensive medical benefits and generous paid time off.

## About adaption

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Adaption builds adaptive AI systems that learn continuously and efficiently, moving beyond static models and expensive retraining cycles.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed Stage – $50M raised) [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/adaption-labs-50-million-seed-funding-emergence-captial-sara-hooker-sudip-roy-ai-models-that-learn-on-the-fly/)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/adaption-labs)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (founding team assembled around late 2025 / early 2026)
- **Founders**: Sara Hooker (former VP Research at Cohere) and Sudip Roy (former Director of Inference Computing at Cohere) [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/adaption-labs-50-million-seed-funding-emergence-captial-sara-hooker-sudip-roy-ai-models-that-learn-on-the-fly/)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
- **Target Customers**: B2B / Enterprise (hiring for Head of Enterprise Sales) [Careers](https://adaptionlabs.ai/careers)
- **Mission / Purpose**: Build extremely efficient AI that adapts in real time, treating constraints like latency, memory, cost, and energy as first-class design inputs so that intelligence evolves through interaction rather than brute-force scaling. [Website](https://adaptionlabs.ai/)

## Products & Services
- **[Adaptive Intelligence Platform]**: A system designed for continuous, on-the-fly learning without costly retraining or extensive prompt engineering. Combines adaptive data shaping, gradient-free learning, and co-designed hardware-algorithms to deliver highly efficient, domain-adaptable AI tailored to each task. [Website](https://adaptionlabs.ai/) – currently in waitlist phase.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed (company declined to provide) [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/adaption-labs-50-million-seed-funding-emergence-captial-sara-hooker-sudip-roy-ai-models-that-learn-on-the-fly/)
- **Key Metric**: $50M Seed Funding (led by Emergence Capital, with participation from Mozilla Ventures, Fifty Years, Threshold Ventures, Alpha Intelligence Capital, E14 Fund, and Neo) [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/adaption-labs-50-million-seed-funding-emergence-captial-sara-hooker-sudip-roy-ai-models-that-learn-on-the-fly/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Emergence Capital (lead), Mozilla Ventures, Fifty Years, Threshold Ventures, Alpha Intelligence Capital, E14 Fund, Neo [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/adaption-labs-50-million-seed-funding-emergence-captial-sara-hooker-sudip-roy-ai-models-that-learn-on-the-fly/)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of 15 employees with +58.8% monthly growth; 23 active job postings; operates in 5 countries (US, Canada, India, Brazil, Peru); research team has 150+ publications across top AI conferences; backers include key players in AI and venture capital [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/adaption-labs)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Efficiency-first approach**: Unlike most labs chasing scale, Adaption prioritises low compute, low cost, and continuous adaptation – treating constraints as innovation drivers.
- **Real-time learning**: Enables models to update on-the-fly without retraining or fine-tuning, reducing enterprise overhead and latency.
- **World-class research talent**: Team brings deep expertise from Cohere, Google DeepMind, and Carnegie Mellon, with a track record of influential publications (including work on the “slow death of scaling”) [Research Page](https://www.adaptionlabs.ai/research)
- **Co-design of hardware and algorithms**: Systems are built from the ground up with serving constraints in mind, promising better efficiency at scale.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current Priority**: Move from waitlist to product-market fit, hiring across research, engineering, GTM, and design to build and deploy the first generation of adaptive AI for enterprise customers.
- **Direction for Growth**: Expand the platform to multiple industries and specialisations while continuing research into adaptive compute, on-the-fly alignment, and dynamic learning strategies. [Research Page](https://www.adaptionlabs.ai/research)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasises efficiency, real-world interaction, and product excellence as core design values. The team is small (~15 people), offering high impact and ownership from day one.
- **Work Model**: Hybrid, remote, and onsite options available across locations including San Francisco, New York, Toronto, London, and Singapore [Careers](https://adaptionlabs.ai/careers)
- **Roles**: Open positions in research (Research Scientist, Applied ML Engineer), engineering (Distributed Systems, Inference Platform), GTM (Growth Lead, Head of Enterprise Sales), and design (Product Designer). Contracts and full-time available.
- **Notable Perks**: Work with world-class AI researchers, access to strong funding runway, and the chance to define an entirely new approach to AI that challenges the dominant scaling paradigm.

## Sources
1. [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/adaption-labs-50-million-seed-funding-emergence-captial-sara-hooker-sudip-roy-ai-models-that-learn-on-the-fly/)
2. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/adaption-labs)
3. [Website](https://adaptionlabs.ai/)
4. [Careers](https://adaptionlabs.ai/careers)
5. [Research Page](https://www.adaptionlabs.ai/research)

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